Yallourn W power station

Yallourn W power station is owned by TRUenergy, a subsidiary of CLP. The power station is supplied with coal from the Yallourn mine.

The 1480 megawatt power station is located near Yallourn West and, in 2009, it was estimated to have emitted 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2e)

The power station comprises 2 360 megawatt generating units and 2 x 380 megawatt units which were commissioned between 1974 and 1982. (Another report from 2003 lists the units as being two 350 generating units commissioned between 1973 and 1975 and two 375 megawatt units commissioned between 1981 and 1982 with an overall capacity of 1450 megawatts. It was also assesses as the second lowest cost producer in Victoria and with a "sent out thermal efficiency" of approximately 28%.)

TRUenergy flags willingness to close ... if it gets the right price
In mid-2010 TRUenergy signaled that, while they believed that an emissions trading scheme was the remained the best way to reduce greenhouse gases, they were prepared to phase out the plant if they could negotiate an appropriate amount of direct compensation from the then Labor Victorian government and/or the federal government. "Given there is unlikely to be an emissions trading scheme in the near term, direct action (in the form of compensation for cutting pollution) is certainly something that will reduce emissions," TRUenergy spokesman Carl Kitchen told The Age.

National Pollutant Inventory Data
The Australian's Government's National Pollutant Inventory lists emissions from the Yallourn power station for 2008/2009 as being:

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